New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-04

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to be able to wipe it out. The Dehlocii''o
plurality two years ago was 3O,6oo, put '"o'
thirds of this was obtained in Baltimorc'
where this movement has its great strehS.h'
and was doubtless increased by fraud. III
1884 CleveIands plurality on a heavy Vo'c'
such as will surely be cast at the coming eicc-
ton, was only 1898.
Tho address ignores one fact which is too
significant TO be overlooked here. This KING
owes large part of its power to-day TO Presi-
dent Cleveland, who stands by it and protects
it, with full knowledge of its rottenncss, ana
| in the face of the most strenuous protests
How do Democrats and independent voters
who really believe in Reform like the picture !?
| Attention is called again to the subject OF
hazng by the experiences Of a student at Will
Jams College, resulting in reported pRostration
OF the nervous system, il not Of the mind itself,
which has, we trust, been exaggerated Is there
never to be an end to this brutal practccp
Whenever boy dies Of his injuries, or some other
serious result follows there is brief scandal and
the students scared for time into good
behavior. Then when this impression has worn
of. there is another outbreak. The practice is
utterly without excuse, and college authorities
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II won't do for Mr.. Cleveland to plead that he
didn't know the CyclOpeda Sas loaded Any
how, he ought to have remembered that hts Trend
and admircr, Mr. Dana, Is supposed to know 1t
all by heart
| rue N,wYorK TRrnuvr seems to be under some
concern because the Democratic state Convention was
not 3Rensa ss,ser,hg was more than snfcieney
that sort Of thing for all time to come-tIhe Buh@"
| Courier
The fact that the Democratic State Convention
was not ofencd with prayer was not so much to
he wondered at, all things considered. But it
is panful to find a leading Democratic organ not
knowing enough Of religious institutions to know
that IL is absurd to speak Of a prayer as
performance
| New Jersey is 10 have patent ballot-boxes pro-
! viled with combination locks and some intricate
| cog-whcel apparatus, but it does not follow that
the election machinery will run with perfect
smoothness and fraud be eliminated from the
rolls In fact, there is look about the matter
that suggests job in the interest of the maker
OF The boxes and some politicians. The law is
explicit and mandatory, and the experiment-it
cannot be pronounced anything more-wil be
watched with some interest both in and out Of
the State. To contemplate the possibility of
break down in the machinery and the necessity of
turning away long line Of citizens with ballots
in their hands is not altogether cheering.
| Active work is To 90 on at the Navy Yard on
the ground OF an emergency" simultaneously
a political emergency looms above the horizon.
THE London Standard still thinks there was
something the matter with the Thistle's bottom
and says that the examination in dry dock of
that portion OF her hull will be looked To with
interest" The decided impression on this side
Of the Atlantic IS that the fault mist lie sought
for elsewhere.
The gcncalogy Of political myths is fasct'
mating study. The old stories are shifted TO new
names In each generation. Who does the shift
ing? II would he interesting 10 know just the
point at which the old statesman is stripped or
the story, and the new statesman dressed up IN
IT, Here, for example, IL the legend that ex
President Hayes had demOcraticalW served his
ncighbors as roadmaster since he became private
citizen lt appears that this not only not
true Of Sfr Hayes, but that IL is an ancient myth
going back to the days OF Jackson and Van Buren,.
We alluded TO IL the other day as showing along
with Monroe's service a justice OF the peace,
some Of the ostPrcsidential occupations OF in
cumbcnts Of that Office, and IL seems we had only
adopted roorback old that il had all the
ycncrabencSs OF truth. There would hardly
be anything homogeneous in Nr. IIayess perform
ing such service, for the public knows, he has
been constantly busy since his retirement in re-
formatory and other useful works, and must
have found the demands upon his time almost
ncessant. Ii is characteristic of his equabe
temperament that his friends know, he has
never missed, in the calmer pleasures of these
hbors the excitcments Of the Presidency. If all
our ex -Presidents could have had the same phiio-
sophie composure, we should never have to ask
ourselves what should do with them.
| Yes, the Democratic craft in this State is sail
ing without centreboard.
| "1herc can be no filter representative of the
American people than Samuel j. Randall "1he
Atlanta Constitution" makes this assertion, and
we call upon Colonel Watterson TO respond.
| 1t Is calmly assumed in various quarters that
| the recent Democratic State Convention free
from the prese nee and influence Of Federal office
holders. This is cool enough to bring on early
skating. The number OF Federal Oilice-holders
who went to Saratoga. In spite Of the Presidents
order, was considerable; the number of those who
took part In the home struggles over delegates
and sent men TO Saratoga to represent them was
very large. One of those who both worked at
home and appeared at Saratoga was Mr.. Hanlon
now Collector Of Internal Revenue, who two years
ago wrote to the Republican postmaster at Albion:
| MEDINA, N. Y, Nov. 2, 1883.
A. @. BENNETT, ESQ.
friend. Mr. Taylort We will prove your friends.
| Yours JAMES A. HANLoS